CURRENT MISSION

After living 8 years in Mexico + Argentina + travelling around South America I'm back in Rennes, Brittany, France since september 2020 with my partner from Chile, Lisette. Enjoying brittanies beautiful landscapes and waves, my mission for summer 2022 is to improve my surfing and maybe kite-surfing skills !

ABOUT ME

I'm a vegetarian, open minded, dynamic, half-french, enthusiastic, people loving, humorous, half-german, kind, adventurous, environment-friendly, music loving, generous human!

I graduated as a Civil Engineer as well as a Master in Town planning and International Cooperation. I've been working in Mexico City , Buenos Aires and Paris in social housing policies and social production of habitat, and in a small town of Oaxaca State in the post-earthquake reconstruction of traditionnal houses.

I can't stand having nothing to do, so everyday I'm not busy I look for something to do, new people to share and laugh and experiences with! Cause maybe you've also noticed, life is quite short if you consider all the possibilities, all the destinations, all the cultures and all the things to discover!

PHILOSOPHY

Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get [Forrest Gump]

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just play the CS game like everyone here does, meeting people from everywhere, sharing time and experiences, helping out, hosting people and hoping to be hosted in return by other people all over the world!

I love to stay in contact with people I meet through CS !

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I discovered CS in 2008 and met all this lovely people!

Surfed / in :

Carina / Stockholm, Sweden
Daniel / Stockholm, Sweden
Maria / Dresden, Germany
Xenia / Dresden, Germany
Sandra / Berlin, Germany
Herrmann / Berlin, Germany
Asia / London, UK
Fernando / London, UK
Andrea / San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Julien and Elsa / Lyon, France
Martin and mates / Copenhagen, Danemark
Aurélia and mates / Grenoble, France
Lucas / Amsterdam, Neetherlands
Camille and mates / Bordeaux, France
Memo and Familly / Peten, Guatemala
Rosalia / Oaxaca, Mexico
Ivan / Chihuahua, Mexico
Diego / Montevideo, Uruguay
Simon / Bristol, UK
Graziela, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Waleed, Dubai, UAE

Hosted / from :

Peter / Los Angeles, US
Mathew / Port Macquarie, Australia
Charlotte / Paris, France
Vivien, Mathilde & JB / Paris, France
Domilè & Vaida / Vilnus, Lithuania
Basia & Tomek / Lodz, Poland
Maria & Alberto / Santiago de Chile
Natasha / Sint-Petersburg, Russia
Edwardo / Caracas, Venezuela
Asbjørn / Copenhagen, Danemark
Lina & Ema / Vilnus, Lithuania
Johanna & Tamara / Kempter, Germany
Fredérique & Maud / Rennes, France
Ivan / Chihuahua, Mexico
Markus / Bavaria, Germany
Maria José / Puerto Varas, Chile

Interests

Discovering new people and sharing experiences

I wouldn't be able to live without Music.
I love to sing and I play the guitar, the bass guitar and am trying to learn doublebass and Cajon. If I could I would also learn piano, sax and violin, but I'm a bit short of time...

Sports (swimming, skiing, started surfing...), Tai Chi Chuan (Chen and Yang styles) Shaolin Kung Fu, Capoeira (Regional style).

Discovering new music, go to concerts and festivals, watching movies, hanging out... like every one!

Shooting urban photography and going to galleries and exhibitions !

I love Cooking (vegetarian food) !

Debating and comparing opinions !

Learn about community-driven processes in ecology, arquitecture, housing, social movements, community organising, climate action...

• singing
• photography
• festivals
• capoeira
• environment
• cooking
• vegetarian
• movies
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• skiing
• sports
• swimming
• travelling
• urban exploring
• tai chi
• kungfu
• urbanism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies : All Monty Python's and almost all Tarantino and Almodovar movies, Forrest Gump, Shaun of the dead, La vita e bella, Amelie, The big Lebowski, Black Cat White Cat, alternative movies...

Music : Almost everything: Jazz, Blues, Gipsy Swing, Rock, Folk, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Electro, Flamenco, Balkan music, electronica... and all kind of fusions between them...

George Harrison, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Django Reinhardt, l'Impératrice, Paco de lucia, The Doors, Dire Straits, Dexter Gordon, BB King, Bob Dylan, Georges Brassens, Neil Young, JJ Cale, Supertramp, Chancha Via Circuito, Ravi Shankar, Victor Jara, Lauryn Hill, Serge Gainsbourg, Orishas, Janis Joplin, Ana Tijoux, Calle 13, Lou Reed, Easy Star All Stars, Seeed, Daft Punk, Opa Tsupa, Jefferson Airplane... and 10 000 more !

Books: Luis Sepúlveda, George Orwell, Boris Vian, Daniel Pennac, Khaled Hosseini, Yasmina Khadra, Ionesco, Stephane Hessel...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living in a bush village in Madagascar for 6 weeks with no use of money, no cell phone or any kind of technology, just experiencing humanity !
Traveling 10 months around south america (10 countries) documenting social production of housing in popular neigbourhoods of the cities: https://habitatenmouvement.tumblr.com/
Discovering the magic of amazonian medicinal plants...
Training KungFu with SiFu Shi Yan Ming, last generation of real Shaolin monks. More Chi, Train Harder !

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach : French, German, Spanish, how to cook real Crêpes (Pancakes from Brittany), taichi, qigong, kungfu...
Learn : Quite everything from where you come from or you love doing !
Share : Ideas, opinions, adresses, good time, sustainable ways of living and travelling!

Connecting mind to mind heart to heart.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Italy, Madagascar, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, Mexico, Spain

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